UN General Assembly 2024 updates: Israeli attacks on Gaza, Lebanon dominate

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• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed rising “impunity, inequality, and unpredictability” throughout the world with a push for 193 member states to focus on “more effective, inclusive, and networked multilateralism” in a speech to the UN.
• United States President Joe Biden delivered his final address to the world body on “how the world should come together”, with his foreign policy legacy under the microscope as wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon.
• Other speakers on the opening day of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) include Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
• The gathering in New York City comes a week after the UNGA overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year, a move Palestine hailed as “historic”.